This Week’s Examples Of Going The WRONG WAY On Environmental, Energy Issues

Below are examples of going the WRONG WAY on environmental and energy issues from last week’s articles and NewsClips--

-- DEP Projects Over $1.5 Million Deficit In Account Funding Oil & Gas Regulation Program In FY 2023-24  [PaEN]

-- TribLive: Westmoreland Water Authority, CNX Reach $600,000 Settlement In Dispute Over Royalties For Dozens Of Natural Gas Wells At Beaver Run Reservoir   [2019 Shale Gas Well Malfunction Not Included]

-- Altoona Mirror: Mariner East 2 Pipeline Construction Destroyed Property Owned By Navy Veterans In Cambria County

-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 18 to 24; Continuing Violations At Equitrans Gas Storage Area; 6 More New Well Abandonments  [PaEN]

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Shell Temporarily Shuts Down Part Of Beaver County Petrochemical Plant For Repairs Fully Activating Natural Gas, Flammable Gases Flaring System Again For An Unspecified Period Of Time 

-- Guest Essay: Shell Petrochemical Plant Off To A Bad- And Dangerous- Start In Beaver County - By Joseph Minott, Clean Air Council [PaEN]

-- AP: Deadly Chocolate Factory Explosion Kills 3, 5 Missing In Reading; Employees Reported Smelling Natural Gas, Investigation By Officials, UGI Ongoing 

-- Inside Climate News: Fossil Fuel Executives See A ‘Golden Age’ For Natural Gas, If They Can Brand It As ‘Clean’

-- WEDNESDAY: DEP Declares Air Quality Action Day For Particulate Matter For Wednesday, March 22 In Liberty-Clairton, Allegheny County

-- Capital & Main - Audrey Carleton: Crypto Currency Mining At Natural Gas Wells Sparks Regulatory Headaches, Outcry In NW PA

-- Senate Republicans Again Suggest DCNR Allow More Natural Gas Drilling To Fund Park/Forest Operations; New Hellbender License Plate Coming In June  [PaEN]

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[Posted: March 26, 2023]  PA Environment Digest